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 %!TEX root = ../blob1.tex
 \nn{Not sure where this goes yet: small blobs, unfinished:}
 
+% ******* temporary
+\def\setc#1#2{\{#1|#2\}}
+
 Fix $\cU$, an open cover of $M$. Define the `small blob complex' $\bc^{\cU}_*(M)$ to be the subcomplex of $\bc_*(M)$ of all blob diagrams in which every blob is contained in some open set of $\cU$.
 
 \begin{lem}[Small blobs]